Team Galiza - just like Portugal and Japan - were complete beginners in the kayaksurf worlds as teams. José Miguel Castro wrote for us an interesting report from their experiences. Watch out the SLIDESHOW and check the famous "paella" from Jorge!!

Jonny Bingham sent us the invitation and we have all the proud to support one more competition organized by one of the best kayaksurf schools in the world. NI Squad was 3rd in the Worlds but their "New Generation" is there to confirm the efforts of Dessie, Harry, Jonny, and many others. All the best for the comp! You can see the Mega Merlinski that you can win this saturday!

Here is report from Steve Farthing with some of the incredible photos of Penny. All about the Waveski Worlds that are still running in Australia till 5th of this month. Check out the news and, after the photos, the links for results and more pics. Enjoy it!

The surf was pumping this morning with a quarter tide coming in and off shore winds. The Open division was on all day and we now have our top 16 riders. By the time we got to heat 32, it was after midday and the conditions went onshore with an outgoing tide and pretty ordinary surf. There were some tough heats and there was some major upsets with previous world champions and finalists Dave Dinning, Blair Moore, Dale Randahl, Darren Kearns, Ben John and myself.

Rees Duncan is still going through with a shoulder injury that is 50/50 on perservering with continuing in the event.

Last night we all met at Stetsons in Coffs Harbour, one of the events major sponsors to see the premiere of the Subgraviti Productions new movie "B Side" what a great waveski flick.

More age division heats tomorrow and some of the open man on man rounds, the actions well and truely hotting up. Until Tomorrow "Lets go Bananas"

After the presentation of the new models Rapanui and Diamond in the Worlds, RPF continues with the classes on their Kayaksurf School. Here we can see some pics by João Vaz. In the water, are the models Diamond, Maori and Master. Enjoy it!

Marty McCann sent us the photos and the report from their last surf trip during the last days of August. Check out the report, the photos (Donegal) and the link for Ocean Addicts! Great surf guys!

Conor Daly

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Magerorty, Donegal, NO da Irlanda

21st - 28th of August 2009 has been set aside for a week long Waveski Tour of NW Ireland. No comp! just free surf sessions. The aim is to get Waveskiers together to chat about the direction of the sport in Britain & Ireland and also give each other top tips and handy hints to improve surfing. Provided we get waves it is hoped that we will generate some great images and footage from this trip. Riders confirmed are Shaun Holmes, Mike Orsman and Marty McCann.

Ocean Addicts is a Paddlesport Coaching venture based in the North and North West of Ireland. Our aim at Ocean Addicts is to provide a progressive and individualised coaching service and promote participation in various paddlesport disciplines.

Chris Harvey is one of the best surfkayakers out there. Known by its huge airs he is now part of our W-Team riding a Watertech ONA.His words:"I'm especially excited to get involved in the design process and work with the guys at Watertech to drive the sport forward...".

Adam Harvey is the Junior HP Surfkayak World Champion...He is very young but a real promisse and the future of this sport. He paddles great, and that took him to the first place on the podium this last worlds on the Junior category. He paddles a Watertech ONA now, just like his older brother :)

Ronald RAUHE, German Olympic and World K1 Champion, jumped into a ONA and paddled on a surfkayak for the first time. Of course that the ONA is not as fast as the K1 he normally rides...But still had lot's of fun with it... this boat is definitely a winner ;)

Wouldn't you know it, first day of competition and the SE winds pick up, making the waves a choppy and unpredictable although still around the 3 foot mark. Round 1 of the open qualifiers and Masters was run, no major upsets and no eliminations as repercharges will be run tomorrow. Justine Guillaume from Guadeloupe was a standout with one of the highest heat scores but again the conditions were challenging.